Pledge Status
Complete
Pledge Date
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Program Year
2023
Achievement
2023
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Action Items Committed for 2023
- Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.
- Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
- Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
- Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
- Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
- Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
- Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.
- Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
- Remove milkweed from the list of noxious plants in city weed / landscaping ordinances (if applicable).
Past Pledge Archive
| Mayor Name | Program Year | Pledge Date | Achievement | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor Michael Neitzke | 2024 | 12/1/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Michael Neitzke | 2023 | 3/8/2023 | Leadership Circle | View Pledge |
| Mayor Michael Neitzke | 2022 | 1/14/2022 | Signatories | View Pledge |
| Mayor Michael Neitzke | 2021 | 12/15/2020 | Signatories | View Pledge |
